Rick Perry turns himself in to authorities: Does he lose in the end?

posted at 4:41 pm on August 19, 2014 by Noah Rothman

Even the New York Times editorial board thinks the grand jury indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry is baseless. In an editorial dripping with contempt for their own conclusions, the Times is compelled to confess that there is really no there there.

“One has to read this editorial to appreciate the angst it engendered in the Gray Lady’s panel of handwringers,” Ed Morrissey observed. “It’s an expert lesson in the use of weasel words.”

Conservatives have rallied to Perry’s side following this baseless indictment. Democrats have scrambled to disassociate themselves from his accusers. Many thought that Perry may end up emerging, paradoxically, in a better political position for having been indicted on corruption charges.

But Rosemary Lehmberg, the local district attorney who managed to secure this indictment and who many believe was exacting political retribution against Perry after he sought her removal from the bench for her DUI arrest, may end up with the last laugh.

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to turn himself into authorities Tuesday afternoon at a local Texas jail on the heels of his indictment for alleged abuse of power, a member of the governor’s legal team told Fox News,” a report read on Tuesday. “Fox News has learned Perry will have his mugshot and fingerprints taken.”

That’s really bad news for those who backed Perry’s prospective 2016 presidential campaign. No matter how frivolous the charges Perry faces, and they are frivolous, few politicians can recover from having a police mugshot follow them around wherever they go. And Perry’s mugshot will do just that in 2015 and 2016.

Life isn’t fair, and neither are high-dollar Republican donors – the kind of people a prospective candidate needs to woo in order to mount an even remotely competitive presidential campaign. Perry has been effectively positioning himself as a more conservative but still electable alternative to more centrist candidates like Chris Christie and Jeb Bush in his pitch to donors, but the notoriously skittish GOP donor base will be nervous about backing a candidate with optics as bad as those the Texas governor will earn today.

Maybe Perry can turn this around and turn even his mugshot into an advantage, as he has so effortlessly with the indictment that precipitated it. But that remains to be seen. When the Republican base’s protective instinct has worn off, that mugshot will still be there. Make no mistake, this is a serious blow to Perry’s viability as a national candidate.

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All the evil Dims want is the albatross of “indictment” hovering over Perry’s head wherever he goes. The mug shot, fingerprints, etc. are an added bonus, but the term “indictment and/or indicted” was their goal.

The Dims understand one thing; their base is mostly comprised of know-it-all college kiddies who know nuthin‘, the victim set, *single mothers (*the one’s that give birth to checks rather than children), dirty smelly hippie d-bags, pompous urban yuppie types, party-line union thugs, lib edumakaterz & perfesserz, and the illegal gimm-e-grants.
All are ill-informed, most are completely ignorant of the country’s epic free-fall, *some vote because they just can’t stand the other guy’s party (*successfully brainwashed or simply brain dead), and a growing few vote because they are truly convinced that failure is the new success.
One thing’s for certain though, they will hear the word “indictment” from their favorite media filth whenever Perry’s name is mentioned regardless of the subject matter.

For instance:

Governor of Texas Rick Perry, recently indicted, was seen in Colorado luring another disgruntled fire arms manufacturer seeking a more hospitable business climate.

Rick Perry was at a ceremony today honoring Texas Vietnam veterans, but with those indictment charges surely weighing heavily on his mind, one wonders if he should be spending any time at any type of ceremony and more time trying to repair his tarnished reputation.

In other news, fun-loving drunkie, DA Rosie Lehmberg had a great time at the Blue Donkey nightclub trying her hand at the Dwarf-tossing competition here in Austin. Eat your indictment out Gov. Perry.

No matter how frivolous the charges Perry faces, and they are frivolous, few politicians can recover from having a police mugshot follow them around wherever they go.
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LOL! Are you kidding me? People are already using it to show their support for Perry. It’s become a symbol of liberal oppression as well as the symbol of not backing down to it. Have you even seen the mug shot? The guy is practically laughing in it.

I saw Tom DeLay on TV doing an interview. He said he’d warned them ever since his own malicious prosecution in Texas to fix these problems with Texas prosecutors. They ignored him, including Perry. And this is the result.

It’s worth mentioning that filing frivolous lawsuits by a litigious Dem lawyer was how they drove Sarah Palin from office in Alaska. She said, truthfully, that resigning was best for the state and for her because she had time for nothing but the lawsuits and inquiries and depositions. After she resigned, the legislature passed laws to prevent the same thing from happening to future Alaska governors.

The stupid reflexive instinct to bring up the “oops” moment will be overridden by this event. Unless this hits critical mass, people only remember the latest scandal/story. There is now a current story and Perry is winning on all fronts.

The United States is now officially a 3rd world banana republic, where Obama is the dictator who does what he wants, is surrounded by criminals like Perjurous Eric Holder, spies on, targets, & punishes citizens who opposes him, and who puts his political rivals in jail (like China…or Hussein used to do) on trumped up charges. Will the last American out please bring the flag?!

Perry’s hubris will be his undoing. The prosecutor will beat Perry over the head with his own statements. The law is so vague that it can mean whatever the prosecutor says it means. Juries don’t have any sympathy for politicians and will be easily convinced to convict Perry. This is an unforced error on the part of Perry, and he will continue the unforced errors by shooting his mouth off. The case isn’t going to be settled before he leaves office and if Perry doesn’t issue himself a pardon, he will probably go to jail.

Perry’s (alleged) “abuse of power” indictment is a cruel mockery to the loved ones of Obama’s assassination victims.

Agonized parents, widows and orphans of our brave SEAL Team 6 heroes (betrayed by the regime’s Extortion 17 cover-up) have for years been denied their right to bring testimony against Obama before military tribunal on charges of viciously ordering the sinister assassinations (and public desecrations with Muslim curses) of their brave military loved ones’.

That isn’t a mug shot. It’s a head shot! Perry may even use it in campaign material.

Tom Delay was grinning in his photo; that indictment was also a joke. Has anyone posted Lehmberg’s mug shot? Though the videos are priceless. “I’m not drunk” – as an officer keeps her from falling on her big ass!

Perry has been effectively positioning himself as a more conservative but still electable alternative to more centrist candidates like Chris Christie and Jeb Bush in his pitch to donors, but the notoriously skittish GOP donor base will be nervous about backing a candidate with optics as bad as those the Texas governor will earn today.

I still say she is our best hope in 2016. The one guarantee to rev up the best.

By the way, they are doing the same thing here in Wisconsin to Scott Walker with the politically motivated john Doe II. It was stopped by a federal appellate court but the Democrat DA and his persecution squad have ignored the court and are still pursuing a case against the governor. Watch for an October surprise indictment that will kill his re-election, although he is trailing the Democrat empty suit in the polls, primarily because his supporters are complacent. They think that winning the recall by a larger margin that his original election meant he was unbeatable. A significant part of those votes were Democrats opposed to the recall itself. Those votes will go to Mary Burke.

It’s one thing if there were, say, mugshots of Perry all disheveled and looking like he was on a bender, or with some facial bruising from a fight with cops. But in these mugshots he will look good and appear calm and collected. They really won’t be what the Democrats (and evidently Noah) are looking for.

I’m making a t-shirt…on the front I’ll put images of Perry and beside him a pic of Benjamin Netanyahu on the front…on the back I’ll have pics of Bill Ayers and beside that a pic of Val Jerret with a simple question written across the top of the images… ‘Who will you stand with in 2016?’

If Perry has half the political moxie and ballsiness of your average Liberal he will use his mug shot as his official campaign portrait. Perhaps make it into an old-timey Texas “WANTED” poster listing his “crimes” such as “lowering taxes” “reducing unemployment” etc.

It’s time for the GOP to stop being such prim and proper little Marian The Librarian weenies…

One of the jurors on the grand jury which indicted Perry was active in her role as state Dem party delegate during the grand jury proceedings, which included hearing testimony for the indictment from a Dem state senator with whom she had partied at the Dem convention: